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Collaborative VenturesTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:08:45 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9TechNexus Kicks-Off National Programs at Opening of its New Growth Incubatorhttp://www.technexus.com/news/technexus-kicks-off-national-programs-at-opening-of-its-new-growth-incubator/
http://www.technexus.com/news/technexus-kicks-off-national-programs-at-opening-of-its-new-growth-incubator/#commentsTue, 06 May 2014 05:30:49 +0000http://www.technexus.com/?p=1088We’ve announced a number of programs focused on improving the qualities, connections, and successes of the national tech innovation ecosystem, which will begin rollout later this month:

A national innovation network that provides a TV network that enables incubators, accelerators, and university entrepreneurship centers to better share capabilities and opportunities with one another, and then connect to corporate innovators as potential customers, partners or acquirers.

National research panels that mine the entrepreneurial ecosystem for unmet business needs and opportunities for technology solutions, which can then help set development goals and plans. The first panel will be Retail & Analytics.

Ongoing programming on national issues, like hosting events for Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good, Collab/Space Chicago, a PBS MediaShift workshop, and the Forbes Reinventing America project.

2014 at the grand opening of our new growth Incubator, a 50,000 sq. ft. facility anchoring Chicago’s new innovation district in the historic Civic Opera Building. The Incubator features flexible offices and workspaces that can be configured to meet the evolving needs of growth businesses, and is supported with state-of-the-art telepresence technology and an in-house Media Center with complete A/V production and transmission capabilities.

“We’ve set out to change the conversation about technology innovation nationwide,” explained CEO Terry Howerton. “The success rate of startups is woefully low, too many great ideas stay on shelves or never reach paying customers, and our nation’s leading businesses are rich in innovation activities, but poor in getting the tools and support necessary to truly disrupt

“We don’t want to just talk about innovation, or raise money to fund it,” added Jonathan Salem Baskin, a managing director. “We intend to take it a step further, and support entrepreneurs and established companies nationwide in helping them succeed by changing the way we do business, whether it happens at our new Incubator, at other workspaces in Chicago, or anywhere else in the country,” he added.